Gilda Davis
Senior Lecturer Children’s Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Department of Pre-Registration Nursing
email: gilda.davis@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 543650
Gilda has worked in a variety of clinical settings, specialising in children’s palliative care for many years, before returning to higher education.
Qualifications
- Enrolled Nurse (General), Royal Gwent School of Nursing, 1988
- Registered Sick Children’s Nurse, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormand Street, 1993
- MSc Children’s Services, University of Wales (Cardiff), 2000
- Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Wales (Bangor), 2001
- Non-Medical Prescriber, Birmingham City University, 2016
- Post Graduate Diploma Advancing Practice (Advanced Clinical Practice), ¾ÞÈéÎÞÂë, 2019
Teaching Interests
- Children
- Palliative care
- Leadership
- Complex care needs in children and young people
- Research
- Enquiry Based Learning
- Unconscious bias
- Nursing
Research Interests
- Narrative
- Ethnophenomenology
- Bereavement
- Palliative care
Recent Publications
Davis, G. et al (2024) Places of Farewell: A Scoping Review Exploring Factors Influencing the Choice of Place of Death for Children when Death is Expected, Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing.
EBN blog Places of Farewell: bereaved parents decision making about their child’s place of death February 11th 2024
Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine Conference 2023: Poster presentation.
RCN International Nursing Research Conference 2023: Poster presentation.
EBN blog Children’s Palliative Care in a Pandemic October 10th 2021
Membership of Professional Bodies
NMC
- Enrolled Nurse (General)
- Registered Sick Children’s Nurse